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What do you like?

Clearly you caught a striking dragon fly. I like that you kept the background clear and you focused on the head. I am not really sure I see the pixelation described by Mikkx as it looks more like noise on my screen.

What would you improve?

If you are using LR or PS I would run the picture through the denoise filter. Or even better download a free copy of NIK software from Google and use the denoise function in that. You should be able to use a contact point on the background and really smooth it out. You could then use the sharpen tool to see if you could get a little more detail out of the dragonfly. If you shhot raw i would start again and run through the NIK workflow before making your crop.
I assume you used flash from the bright spots. I like those on the head and would leave them as they draw the eye to where you want it, however, I would take out the bright spots on the tail.

12 June 2016

benstThanks for the feedback mike and welcome to the site! Ufortunately I wont be able to try your suggestions on this shot as the original file is lost.

What do you like?

Lovely composition, pose the dragonfly is pulling :).

What would you improve?

This is a good example of what a over cropped photo looks like. There is a lot of pixelation and loss of detail in the background and in the Dragonfly itself. I would re-crop this photo a little less and maybe not sharpen it. Otherwise a great shot it must have taken an age to get. What lens to you have?

27 February 2016

benstas I mentioned in the description it was my first outing with a camera in almost 10 years, previous to buying this dslr I had only used a compact. Didn't have much of a clue what I was doing in regards to settings etc and was shooting in jpeg. It was handheld Nikon d5100 with a 55-200mm Nikon vr lens. Thanks for your feedback Mikk!